RICHARDSON, EMORY AARON: ?-1965.

Emory Aaron Richardson was born in Pike County, Ind., and moved to
Evansville
in 1918. He received the
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University of Chicago. He was a lecturer, entertainer, and
humorist and used the pseudonym Big Rich. Unofficially, Richardson
was chosen poet laureate of Indiana by the state legislature largely because of his poem
"Lincoln, the Hoosier." He died in 1965.